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Even if you don't care at all about file sizes (which is definitely A Take), there is the whole other side of improving image quality. Everything about computer imagery is pretty s…

Yes, the unfortunate thing is that Google is not interested in a higher quality Web so much as they are in a Web that is cheaper to index and serve. So it's unsurprising that they …

I think an important driver in this is a persistent desire for (and faith in) novelty. Every engineer has had unpleasant experiences with some giant convoluted messes. And there's …

> Trust us. While you should never trust any corporation in the sense that you might trust a person, you can trust that they will do the things that they believe will make them the…

I think apple noticed a long time ago that the world is not exactly lacking in quantity of phone apps. If anything, the sheer number of them has become a hindrance to anyone wading…

> HN is basically anti ads. Tracking / Targeted or not. As has been the case since somewhere around 2016. That's hardly unique to this site, and hardly as recent as 2016. I would s…

I was quite disappointed that the Photoshop generative fill stuff insists on running on Adobe's servers rather than locally. So however good it is, there are many of us who will ne…

With SD you have a lot of control over not just basics like image size and prompt complexity, but also things like how many iterations of which different sampler(s) get used. So sp…

> If Google forced it through but Apple refused, it would never be practical to enforce it. The numbers may not be as high, but they're plenty high enough that you couldn't cut all…

Whereas I feel that Desmond Tutu covered this pretty well already: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

> And do you think an 80 IQ founder == 120 IQ founder all else being equal? Musk and Bezos seem to have come to roughly similar outcomes, so evidence suggests yes.

> The two scenarios are precisely symmetrical. The only difference is that the cause on one side is one that you agree with, and on the other side is one that you disagree with. Ye…

Nope! But that's because extending civil rights more uniformly to more people is a good thing, and selectively denying civil rights is a bad thing. Any reductive moral framework th…

That CSAM detection method was something that apple published a whitepaper about to get feedback. The feedback was strongly negative, so they never implemented it. I would hope tha…

I disagree. Vehemently. It seems disingenuous to sweep "actively working to deny people civil rights" under the rug of "having an unpopular political opinion." Partially because th…

> Ignoring the client side scanning ability that is built into the OS Which client side scanning would that be?

True, but security and privacy are different things. At most, one could say that security is necessary-but-not-sufficient for privacy. Google is generally excellent at security, bu…

> "time nslookup" Or as a slightly more thorough approach, you can use something like namebench or dnsbench: https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench https://github.com/askmedia…

> More precisely, why 100 tabs in 1 window instead of 10 tabs times 10 windows? I still don't understand why some people believe that the correct answer is anything other than 100 …

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/721395638537961472/i-see-people... remains the best take on Brave that I've seen. "I see people talking about the Brave browser in the whole Firefox vs…

That's a bit of a tenuous connection. That decline is an anomaly. The majority of it is attributable to covid, and a significant minority attributable to fentanyl: https://www.cdc.…

Yes, that famous marshmallow test has now been debunked several times from several angles. Many of them come down to the issue that the test was not measuring the participants' wil…

> If a civilian is allowed to do it, so is a police officer. That is often not the way it works, most especially when it comes to obtaining evidence. If some random person breaks i…

The problem with LCD windows like that is that they default to opaque, and require power to align the crystals to become clear. Fine for your fancy boardroom, not so good for a veh…

I assume that the previous commenter was referring to Google's monopolies in search, email, and video. All of which they will use to yell at you to switch to Chrome, and will somet…